Pith Number

pith:ECJSYGGF

pith:2026:ECJSYGGF5DV2WZXLFXBXIBJ7VD

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Reasoning While Asking: Transforming Reasoning Large Language Models from Passive Solvers to Proactive Inquirers

Feng Jiang, Hardy Chen, Min Yang, Shujian Huang, Shuo Yan, Wenya Xie, Xin Chen, Yiqian Zhang

arxiv:2601.22139 v2 · 2026-01-29 · cs.CL · cs.AI

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First computed	2026-05-29T02:05:40.024769Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

20932c18c5e8ebab66eb2dc374053fa8f116eb2161e2a2dc2d1c491162fefaeb

Aliases

arxiv: 2601.22139 · arxiv_version: 2601.22139v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2601.22139 · pith_short_12: ECJSYGGF5DV2 · pith_short_16: ECJSYGGF5DV2WZXL · pith_short_8: ECJSYGGF

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/ECJSYGGF5DV2WZXLFXBXIBJ7VD \
  | jq -c '.canonical_record' \
  | python3 -c "import sys,json,hashlib; b=json.dumps(json.loads(sys.stdin.read()), sort_keys=True, separators=(',',':'), ensure_ascii=False).encode(); print(hashlib.sha256(b).hexdigest())"
# expect: 20932c18c5e8ebab66eb2dc374053fa8f116eb2161e2a2dc2d1c491162fefaeb

Canonical record JSON

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    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CL",
    "submitted_at": "2026-01-29T18:56:12Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "5c2ab5165093e9f0aac6e4f712eb4d74db6fbd429b79c266b0eeb5c409b56d23"
  },
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  "source": {
    "id": "2601.22139",
    "kind": "arxiv",
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  }
}